Blackberry monster

There are blackberry bushes growing wild all over the place here, and although I was 99.999% sure they were blackberries I was leary of eating them because, you know, wilderness street sense would say to never eat a berry you don't know for sure.  Today as we were doing a practice bike ride to Gemma's school and we saw people with buckets picking and this lady (originally from Saskatoon) assured me they were fine and so it was berry game on.

We ate seaweed at the park (a gift from Annabelle) and on the way home stopped at a bush to fill up the little trays the seaweed comes in.

1) blackberries are Dangerous!!!!!! Very thorny, all the way down to the stem to the berry, and on the underside of the leaves.  Ouch!
2) blakberrries are Tall!
3) blackberries will make your mouth black.


The kids were instructed to hold their little containers of berries as we biked home.  Upon arrival we had Gemma and a full tray, and Guinness with a empty tray and a mouth full of black.